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Diet-related disease affects children

The fast-food industry is fueling a health crisis of epic proportions: today, the deadliest killers in the U.S. are diet-related diseases. Industry-leader McDonald's is driving this epidemic as it spends close to billions of marketing dollars aimed at hooking kids for life on its unhealthful products. Alarmingly, the current generation of children may be the first with a shorter life expectancy than its parents.

Click on the diagram to find out more about the potential long-term effects of fast food on a child’s health. Then find out more about what we are doing to counter fast food's health effects.